DISCOURSE BY ELDER WILFORD WOODRUFF, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, SUNDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 16, 1877. (Reported by Geo. F. Gibbs.) NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL—THIRTY YEARS PROGRESS IN THE MOUNTAINS—THE GOSPEL UNCHANGABLE—JOSEPH INSPIRED—PRESI- DENT YOUNG'S WORK—WORK OF THE TWELVE—LABORS IN ST. GEORGE TEMPLE—GATHERING OF THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD. It is with much pleasure and sa- tisfaction I again stand before the Saints of God in this Tabernacle. A year nearly has ...

marks, I shall be glad of it. Our position, to-day, before the heavens and the earth and before each other, reminds me of days that are past and gone. On the 20th of July, 1847, I brought our late Presi- dent Young in my carriage through Emigration Canyon into this val- ley, which was the first time he set foot upon this land. The question has been often asked by strangers who visit our city, why did Brig- ham Young pick upon this spot to build ...

was true or false. And it has been precisely in the same way that the names of Joseph Smith and Brig- ham Young have been had for evil by the masses of this enlightened age. The Savior said of those that rejected him, that he was hated by them because he testified of their works, which were evil. And so verily it might be said of those who decry against the men who, in this respect have not been more favored than their Master. Through them light has dawned upon the world, and ...

to act in the name of the Lord; and without it no man ever did or ever can officiate in the ordinances of the House of God. And I cannot be- lieve that there is an honest-hearted man anywhere who possesses any portion of the spirit of the Lord, and who has any faith in the revelations of God, who can believe that men, whether of high or humble birth, learned or unlearned, would be di- vinely called to minister in the things of God, unless they were endowed from on ...

to their nets, that instead of pur- suing the high ealling [calling] of "fishers of men," that they again become common fishermen. They compre- hended not the words of the Savior to them. But after his death, he appeared to them, and they began to understand then what he had previously told them. We did not understand either what Joseph meant when he told us he was going to be taken away. But so it was, and when it came, we knew too well his meaning ...

Adversary and wicked men to de- stroy him from off the earth. His works are before you; they are be- fore the heavens and the earth, and all men. The entire Territory bears marks of his genius and enterprise; and the Lord certainly crowned his labors with success, as he has blessed the labors of his brethren who have not spared their hands or their hearts in assisting him. And instead of the work of the latter-day stopping, or its progress being retarded in consequence of the death of our beloved President, it will ...

to themselves in the spirit, and in order that this work may be done, we must have Temples in which to do it; and what I wish to say to you, my brethren and sisters, is that the God of heaven requires us to rise up and build them, that the work of redemption may be hastened. Our reward will meet us when we go behind the vail. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them." ...

we will then begin to see the neces- sity of building others, for in pro- portion to the diligence of our labors in this direction, will we comprehend the extent of the work to be done, and the present is only a beginning. When the Savior comes, a thousand years will be devoted to this work of redemption; and Temples will appear all over this land of Joseph, —North and South America—and also in Europe and elsewhere; and all the descendants of